[ale] How to get Unix to KickOff an NT Process

[Mike Lockhart]

Hahaha.  I love it.  Rube Goldberg style systems administration.

- mike

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 16:55, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Monday 03 February 2003 03:12 pm, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> > One of the IT guys here came with a question.... He has a cron job on a
> > unix box which needs to start a process on an NT box.  Apparently there
> > is either no trust in the NT cron or the NT guys refuse to schedule a
> > job...
> >
> > Assuming there is no telnet capability on the NT box, the only idea I
> > could come up with is that, IF there were a web server on the NT box..
> >
> > The unix box via a LWP perl script could invoke a CGI script on the NT
> > Box.  That CGI script would start the necessary NT process.
> >
> > Anyone got a more elegant solution??
> 
> You mean something like:
> 
> 1. Linux system (a)  sends big print job to printer (b)
> 2. Weight of paper in printer tray (c) causes tray to break, falling on
> 3. the keyboard (d) placed below (c)
> 4. pressing the Enter key (e) causing
> 5. program (f) to run on
> 6. NT box (g) attached to keyboard (d).
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Michael
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